Village Idiots Quotes

What do they do for a village idiot when you're here?

Come the millennium, month 12, In the home of greatest power, The village idiot will come forth To be acclaimed the leader.

More idiots should just shut their mouths.

If Henry Miller often sounded like a village idiot, it is because, like Whitman, he was the rest of the village as well.

Only idiots refuse to change their minds.

I cannot recognise either the Palestinian state or the Israeli state. The Palestinians are idiots and the Israelis are idiots.

You're an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

How could they think Noel was hot? If this was REALLY Versailles, Noel SO would not be Louis XIV, he would be the French version of the village idiot

Hilary Clinton said you know, it takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village idiot to believe that … it is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for which they pay no price for when they’re wrong.

Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius.

For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.

This country's crazy in terms of fame and what people think it means. They expect a writer to be something between a Hollywood starlet and the village idiot.

I try to remind people, whether you have a growth manager or a value manager, you're going to go through cycles where you think you have a village idiot.

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

Mechanical instruments, potentially a vehicle of rational human purposes, are scarcely a blessing when they enable the gossip of the village idiot and the deeds of the thug to be broadcast to a million people each day.

when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded.